considerable是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 相当大的; 重要的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Monseigneur, as a class, had dissociated himself from the phenomenon of his not being appreciated: of his being so little wanted in France, as to incur considerable danger of receiving his dismissal from it, and this life together.
-- He left Jerry with them, as a figure to fill a doorway that would bear considerable knocking on the head, and retained to his own occupations.
-- 436 A tale of two citiesIX The Game Made hile Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons Wwere in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if Karenin had not got his brother- in-law this berth, then through a hundred other personages-- brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, and aunts--Stiva Oblonsky would have received this post, or some other similar one, together with the salary of six thousand absolutely needful for them, as his affairs, in spite of his wife's considerable property, were in an embarrassed condition.
-- There actually was quite a considerable crowd under the windows.
-- It seemed to him that in a normal development of wealth in a state all these phenomena would arise only when a considerable amount of labor had been put into agriculture, when it had come under regular, or at least definite, conditions; that the wealth of a country ought to increase proportionally, and especially in such a way that other sources of wealth should not outstrip agriculture; that in harmony with a certain stage of agriculture there should be means of communication corresponding to it, and that in our unsettled condition of the land, railways, called into being by political and not by economic needs, were premature, and instead of promoting agriculture, as was expected of them, they were competing with agriculture and promoting the development of manufactures and credit, and so arresting its progress; and that just as the one-sided and premature development of one organ in an animal would hinder its general development, so in the general development of wealth in Russia, credit, facilities of communication, manufacturing activity, indubitably necessary in Europe, where they had arisen in their proper time, had with us only done harm, by throwing into the background the chief question calling for settlement--the question of the organization of agriculture.
-- The marshal had been voted for by a considerable majority.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority; and there are certain ferocious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent.
-- Mr. Fogg repaired to the Exchange, where, he did not doubt, every one would know so wealthy and considerable a personage as the Parsee merchant.
-- Quite different from Lake Asphaltite, whose depression is twelve hundred feet below the sea, it contains considerable salt, and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter, its specific weight being 1,170, and, after being distilled, 1,000.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't care whether he has all science at his fingertips, whether he can instantly diagnose with a considerable degree of accuracy the most obscure ailment, whether he has the surgical technique of a Mayo, a Crile, a Blake, an Ochsner, a Cushing.
-- He said good- by, with lamentations and considerable beer; he found a room for Leora nearer to the hospital; and he emerged as Martin L. Arrowsmith, M.D., house physician in the Zenith General Hospital.
-- There were acrobatic feats later, and a considerable prominence of Orchid, who did not wear stays, who loved dancing, and who praised Martin's feats in the game of "Follow the Leader."
-- secretary, who for a considerable time held her hand to calm her.
-- Curiously, in this completely unmoral set, there were no flirtations; they talked with considerable freedom about "sex," but they all seemed monogamic, all happily married or afraid to appear unhappily married.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a good thing you are taking him home,' observed Zossimov to Razumihin 'we shall see how he is to-mor-row, to-day he's not at all amiss a considerable change since the afternoon.
-- They walked along in silence and only when they were close to Raskolnikov's lodgings, Razumihin broke the si-lence in considerable anxiety.
-- But I don't think there is any considerable danger here, and you really need not be uneasy for they never go very far.
-- 'It was my own doing, not leaving the country, and nearly a year ago Marfa Petrovna gave me back the document on my name- day and made me a present of a considerable sum of money, too.
-- I have considerable reason to believe that Marfa Petrovna, who was so unfor-tunate as to fall in love with him and to pay his debts eight years ago, was of service to him also in another way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hesat looking at the horse's ears, as if he saw something new there;and sat so for a considerable time.
-- You have received some considerable education already.
-- We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; Isitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving myarms with considerable difficulty.
-- It landed me on the flat between the townand the sea, which I could make straight across, and so save myselfa considerable circuit by the high-road.
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